Monthly Archives: October 2020

Weekly Update: to

by | October 31, 2020

Here’s your Canadian Atheist Weekly Update for 24-Oct-2020 to 30-Oct-2020.

Zealots in High Office

by | October 30, 2020

By James Haught James Haught is editor of West Virginia’s largest newspaper, The Charleston Gazette, and a senior editor of Free Inquiry. He is 87-years-old and would like to help secular causes more. This series is a way of giving back. — (Dec. 9, 2019 – Daylight Atheism) Back in 2003, in a top-secret international phone call, President George… Read more »

Trump as Jim Jones?

by | October 23, 2020

By James Haught James Haught is editor of West Virginia’s largest newspaper, The Charleston Gazette, and a senior editor of Free Inquiry. He is 87-years-old and would like to help secular causes more. This series is a way of giving back. — (Nov. 25, 2019 – Daylight Atheism) Cults usually are one-man religions. A magnetic, dictatorial, dogmatic, demagogue… Read more »

Ask Professor Burge 6 – Income and Religious Disaffiliation, and Modern Republican Party

by | October 19, 2020

— By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Professor Ryan Burge‘s website states: “I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science as well as the Graduate Coordinator at Eastern Illinois University. I teach in a variety of areas, including American institutions, political behavior, and research methods. My research focuses largely on the intersection between religiosity and political behavior (especially… Read more »

Ask Jon 19 – Quelle Surprise

by | October 17, 2020

By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Jonathan Engel, J.D. is the President of the Secular Humanist Society of New York. Here we talk about the case of Elizabeth Newman. *Interview conducted on September 14, 2020.* Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, what is going on with this Newman case? Jonathan Engel: It is very interesting. There is this woman named Elizabeth Newman.… Read more »